splenic tingible body macrophage
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000877
A splenic white pulp macrophage found in and around the germinal centers of the white pulp of the spleen that participates in phagocytosis of apoptotic B cells from the germinal centers. A marker for a cell of this type is Mertk-positive. [ GOC:ana GOC:tfm http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19631584 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000031 ]
Term info
human_reference_atlas
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
Term relations
- splenic white pulp macrophage and part of some spleen lymphoid follicle and has plasma membrane part some tyrosine-protein kinase Mer and capable of some apoptotic cell clearance